Fingers pointing

Here are some thoughts on 'words' inspired by Norio Saasaki coach of the Japanese women's football team, 'Start the week, Radio 4 chat show, and my last lecture at Leeds University.

Not just men...
Words, with one foot in sea, one on the shore,
Fingers pointing, "Over there, a bit."

I assume you see what I see.  I try to help you see.
Similar?  Different?  How different?

Your language holds up a familiar well worn loved object.
I scrabble around in my bag and produce my match.
We ponder them both, examining, turning them over.

Never a deliberate deception.


Norio Saasaki said in a pre-semi final interview that the English team played 'simple football'. Lost in translation?  It was felt that he is such a respectful man, the word he used was unlikely to have meant 'simple'.

Start the week discussed the translation of Ofan Parmuk's books, Maureen Freely and the approximations made in the art of translation http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0607w1g .  Likes finger pointing.  words were such deceivers.

Marie, our course lead spoke about how stories in families get repeated so often that they move from a position of 'conjecture' into 'fact'. (They become like sedimentary rock.) Their position becomes unquestionable.  The also begin to loose their potency as the fade into ritual, and observance.  They cease to be thought about because they are part of the scenery.